Lydia Clarke Heston (1923-2018) was an actress and the wife of Oscar-winning actor Charlton Heston for 64 years until his death in 2008. Heston was native of Two Rivers, Wisconsin, and first met Charlton in drama class at Northwestern University and married him in 1944 in Asheville, North Carolina, just before he went overseas to serve in the Army Air Force during World War II. After the war, the Hestons moved to New York, where they pursued acting careers. As Lydia Clarke, she performed on Broadway opposite Ralph Bellamy in Sidney Kingsley's Detective Story, which premiered in 1949. In the following years, Lydia acted in a string of films before she dedicated herself to her family and photography which she picked up on the set of "The Greatest Show on Earth (1952)" after she was asked by Cecil B. DeMille's publicist to help take some on-set photos. Her photography took her to remote locations and her work was exhibited around the world and such books as, "Children Around the World, Mi Vida and Light of the World."